Lighting issues

All build programs are loaded and in their right place, the map contains lights and info_player starts, is without leaks - and does not compile lighting. Nothing in the help menu talks about such a problem. What the devil's going on here?

Do you, er, want to post a compile log?! :razz:

We're already 5 threads in, and we're already reminding that ! :biggrin:

/me cries that he can't use the SDK until the game ships

G.Ballblue said:
/me cries that he can't use the SDK until the game ships

Just a few more days... Now I just need to find the cash to buy the game...

Wild Card said:
Just a few more days... Now I just need to find the cash to buy the game...

Yes, just a few more days until I can go pick up HL2 and not open it for 2 months because I'll be too busy with school.
I actually have an exam the day of and the day after the release. :sad:

All build programs are loaded and in their right place, the map
contains lights and info_player starts, is without leaks - and does not
compile lighting. Nothing in the help menu talks about such a problem.
What the devil's going on here?

What kind of lights are there? If you've only used light_dynamic's that
will make your map fullbright (god knows why). Put a light_spot
somewhere in the map, just hide it away somewhere and that should fix
it.

** Executing...
** Command: Change Directory
** Parameters: "d:\steam\steamapps\wta2k4\sourcesdk"

** Executing...
** Command: Copy File
** Parameters: "D:\MAPPE\deeawg.vmf" "d:\steam\steamapps\wta2k4\sourcesdk\cstrike_sample_content\maps\deeawg.vmf"

** Executing...
** Command: "d:\steam\steamapps\wta2k4\sourcesdk\bin\vbsp.exe"
** Parameters: "d:\steam\steamapps\wta2k4\sourcesdk\cstrike_sample_content\maps\deeawg"

Valve Software - vbsp.exe (Nov 4 2004)
1 threads
materialPath: d:\steam\steamapps\wta2k4\sourcesdk\cstrike_sample_content\materials
Loading d:\steam\steamapps\wta2k4\sourcesdk\cstrike_sample_content\maps\deeawg.vmf
Detected multiplayer map, building linux dedicated server data
fixing up env_cubemap materials on brush sides...
ProcessBlock_Thread: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
ProcessBlock_Thread: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
Processing areas...done (0)
Building Faces...done (0)
FixTjuncs...
PruneNodes...
WriteBSP...
done (0)
writing d:\steam\steamapps\wta2k4\sourcesdk\cstrike_sample_content\maps\deeawg.prt...done (0)
Can't load skybox file black to build the default cubemap!
Finding displacement neighbors...
Finding lightmap sample positions...
Displacement Alpha : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10
Building Physics collision data...
done (0) (88996 bytes)
Building Physics collision data...
done (0) (88996 bytes)
Placing detail props : 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10
Water found with no water_lod_control entity, creating a default one.
Writing d:\steam\steamapps\wta2k4\sourcesdk\cstrike_sample_content\maps\deeawg.bsp
1 second elapsed
Memory leak: mempool blocks left in memory: 49
Memory leak: mempool blocks left in memory: 2

** Executing...
** Command: "d:\steam\steamapps\wta2k4\sourcesdk\bin\vvis.exe"
** Parameters: "d:\steam\steamapps\wta2k4\sourcesdk\cstrike_sample_content\maps\deeawg"

Valve Software - vvis.exe (Nov 4 2004)
1 threads
reading d:\steam\steamapps\wta2k4\sourcesdk\cstrike_sample_content\maps\deeawg.bsp
reading d:\steam\steamapps\wta2k4\sourcesdk\cstrike_sample_content\maps\deeawg.prt
190 portalclusters
491 numportals
BasePortalVis: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (0)
PortalFlow: 0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 (5)
Optimized: 72 visible clusters (0.00%)
Total clusters visible: 20602
Average clusters visible: 108
Building PAS...
Average clusters audible: 189
visdatasize:10564 compressed from 9120
writing d:\steam\steamapps\wta2k4\sourcesdk\cstrike_sample_content\maps\deeawg.bsp
5 seconds elapsed

** Executing...
** Command: "d:\steam\steamapps\wta2k4\sourcesdk\bin\vrad.exe"
** Parameters: -extra "d:\steam\steamapps\wta2k4\sourcesdk\cstrike_sample_content\maps\deeawg"

Valve Software - vrad.exe (Nov 4 2004)
----- Radiosity Simulator ----
Command line: "d:\steam\steamapps\wta2k4\sourcesdk\bin\vrad.exe" "-extra" "d:\steam\steamapps\wta2k4\sourcesdk\cstrike_sample_content\maps\deeawg"

usage : vrad [options...] bspfile
example: vrad c:\hl2\hl2\maps\test

Common options:

-v (or -verbose): Turn on verbose output (also shows more command
-bounce # : Set max number of bounces (default: 100).
-fast : Quick and dirty lighting.
-low : Run as an idle-priority process.
-mpi : Use VMPI to distribute computations.
-rederror : Show errors in red.

Other options:
-dump : Write debugging .txt files.
-dumpnormals : Write normals to debug files.
-threads : Control the number of threads vbsp uses (defaults to the #
or processors on your machine).
-lights <file> : Load a lights file in addition to lights.rad and the
level lights file.
-noextra : Disable supersampling.
-debugextra : Places debugging data in lightmaps to visualize
supersampling.
-smooth # : Set the threshold for smoothing groups, in degrees
(default 45).
-dlightmap : Force direct lighting into different lightmap than
radiosity.
-stoponexit : Wait for a keypress on exit.
-mpi_pw : Use a password to choose a specific set of VMPI workers.
-nodetaillight : Don't light detail props.
-centersamples : Move sample centers.
-luxeldensity # : Rescale all luxels by the specified amount (default: 1.0).
The number specified must be less than 1.0 or it will be
ignored.
-loghash : Log the sample hash table to samplehash.txt.
-onlydetail : Only light detail props and per-leaf lighting.
-maxdispsamplesize #: Set max displacement sample size (default: 512).

-extra obviously isn't a RAD option you can use, then (in fact, it would seem that it always does "-extra" anyway)

As Lep said, the compile frontend is rather misleading in that it
allows you to use -extra when no such option exists. There is instead a
-noextra command I believe, which runs a quicker and less detailed
compile. I've no idea what the difference between -noextra and -fast would be however...